http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/186/
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=24&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false#2

[1374 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #186


]]> en-us Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:11:07 +0000 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:25:19 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/186/ Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:12:19 +0000 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:31:08 +0000 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:31:14 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:04:20 +0000
Well the free ones can't detect the 5.1 configuration available on my sound card.

Just like the Nvidia propriety drivers are far superior than their counter parts.

The restricted drivers applets needs to more" divisible". Currently if I am using the drivers from the nvidia site than the from restricted drivers tool, I lose my madwifi wireless connection because it is lumped with it. ]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:37:52 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:15:18 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:05:55 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:25:42 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:19:44 +0000 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:28:54 +0000 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:25:36 +0000
the problem mentioned above is really a big problem!
I have an integrated sound card Realtec :Realtek ALC850
(card 0: CK804 [NVidia CK804], device 0: Intel ICH [NVidia CK804]) and simply i can not set to work perfectly.
I have sound, but i have some troubles with it what i will enumerate below.
The sound card is connected with an optical cable to my 7.1 amplifier.
I have 3 problem:
- does not work two applications in parallel which want to use the sound card, for example skype and xmms)
- i can not set the SPDIF pass trough, i can not see the films with Dolby, Dts
- i can not change the sound volume from the pc. ]]> Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:24:06 +0000 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:02:09 +0000 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:52:36 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:14:42 +0000
I am sure that users who spent hours to make their sound cards work (with or without success) will agree more readily than others who were lucky enough to have their hardware work out of the box.

However the restricted drivers should be checked by the Linux people before being included in a repository.

If you try for example to auto install Realtek's Linux drivers for the ALC660, the sound card will not be recognized anymore.]]> Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:13:29 +0000
1. If I understand correctly, and I'm relatively new to Linux so I could be wrong, two of the underpinnings that have made Linux successful to this point are that it is free and that it is open source.

2. Linux is becoming more mainstream. For example, I've been a windows user since Windows 3.1, and converted to ubuntu in May of this year.

The learning curve has been steep and still ongoing. What has made the conversion work relatively well is that Linux is free and that it generally works. I am a sophisticated Windows user, and I do remember DOS, so the command line is not as intimidating to me as it would be to those who are younger than I am.

To be honest, I don't care if my NVidia graphics driver is open source or not - I do care that it works. NVidia, I'm assuming, has been working with someone to make sure that their proprietary drivers work with Linux - it's in their best interest. For example, I just recently built a computer with lots of bits and pieces. One of the bits that I bought was an NVidia graphics card. I specifically did not buy ATI because of their poor support for Linux.

I suspect that the majority of recent Linux users are like me - they are coming from a windows world for a variety of reasons. In order for them to stay and contribute (financially or otherwise), their systems have to work, and work better than windows. If a company wants to keep proprietary trade secrets, they should be encouraged to do so. The benefit to us, as Linux users, is that stuff will work.

The proprietary drivers should be in a repository so that those who wish to use only open source may do so. It should be easy for new users to know that there are proprietary alternatives available.

In short (too late!), the current method, at least for the NVidia drivers, works very well. The open source was installed by default, but the option to use a proprietary driver was presented, it was clear, and it was easy to use.]]> Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:36:18 +0000
It would've been so much better if Ubuntu's Restricted Driver Manager reminded me of this, so that I wouldn't have laughed when I realized the "A" in "Alsa" stood for "Advanced"!]]> Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:20:17 +0000
Besides (it has been said in an earlier comment, I think), what good would giving up your freedom do? Look at the nvidia blob (and older versions of the AMD/ATI blob). Lot of good it's done us...]]> Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:07:26 +0000
Ubuntu, alsa, etc are open source projects - so everyone can help. Writing a short email to just ask them is not costing that much time but shows them that there is a demand for good linux drivers.]]> Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:25:19 +0000